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Get Your Farm Home from 
the Canadian Pacific 
T HE Canadian Pacific Railway offers a won¬ 
derful opportunity to own a farm, achieve 
independence and grow rich in Western Can¬ 
ada. It offers you farm lands on the rich 
prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al¬ 
berta for eleven to thirty dollars an acre, 
or irrigated land up to fifty dollars an acre 0 
Twenty Years to Pay 
You pay down 10%. Then you have no payment on the 
principal until the end of the fourth year; then fifteen 
annual payments. Interest is 6 %. 
$2,000Loan to the Farmer 
Loans are made to approved set¬ 
tlers on irrigated farms—with no 
security except the land itself— 
up to $2,000 in improvements. 
You have twenty years to pay 
back this loan at 6% interest. 
Why This Offer Is Made 
The Canadian Pacific is not a real 
estate dealer, in the ordinary 
meaning of the terra. Its pros¬ 
perity depends upon the prosper¬ 
ity of the settlers along its lines 
of railway. To get good settlers 
and to make them keep prosper¬ 
ous, it offers terms and assistance 
which would otherwise be impos¬ 
sible. And this offer applies to 
the wonderful prairie lands of 
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Man¬ 
itoba—the richest grain and stock 
land in North America. 45 bush¬ 
els of wheat, 100 bushels of oats 
per acre, are frequently produced 
on this land. Average crops ex • 
ceed any average elsewhere in 
America. 
Lands Under Irrigation 
In Southern Alberta the Canadian 
Pacific Railway has developed the 
largest individual irrigation un¬ 
dertaking on the American conti¬ 
nent. The irrigated lands are sold 
on the same easy payment terms— 
‘prices range up to $50 an acre. 
The Canadian Pacific Rail¬ 
way will not sell you a farm 
until you have inspected it. 
To make this easy, special 
railway rates have been ar¬ 
ranged. Write for particu¬ 
lars and free illustrated 
booklet. 
M. E. THORNTON 
Supt. of Colonization 
Canadian Pacific Railway 
914 First St. E. Calgary, Alberta 
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Old Virginia Ensilage Corn 
Nectar Sweet Corn 
Glory Cabbage 
are only a hint of the profit-makers 
we have introduced. 
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to send today for a free copy of this 
booklet—write now for it. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Four men and two 
women were killed and 19 injured by an 
explosion of shells Dec. 24 in a small 
building used for shell loading at the 
plant of the J. B. Wise Munition Com¬ 
pany, Watertown, N. Y. 
Five persons lost their lives and 27 
were injured when a St. Louis and San 
Francisco freight crashed into a passen¬ 
ger train at Norge, Okla., Dec. 25. The 
passenger train had been at a ^standstill 
for some time because of frozen pipes 
when the freight struck it, telescoping 
three of the coaches. 
By order of the Railroad Administra¬ 
tion, some hundreds of thousands of 
pounds of high explosive material, includ¬ 
ing TNT and picric acid, the property of 
the French and Italian Governments, has 
been towed out to sea from South Amboy, 
N. J., and dumped overboard, 35 miles 
from the Scotland Neck lightship. This 
plan has been adopted as the only practi¬ 
cal and immediate method of getting rid 
of 22S carloads of the material, which 
has been parked outside of Wilmington, 
Del., for some time awaiting transporta¬ 
tion. 
The United States Government must 
pay $81,265 to the owners of the barken- 
tine Mabel I. Myers, sunk July 30, 1915, 
by the battleship Nebraska off Cape Cod. 
A final decree was filed in the United 
States District Court at Boston Dec. 24. 
The barkentine was bound for Boston 
from Barbados when run down by the 
Nebraska in fog. 
Five large business houses, including 
the Dominion National Bank, were de¬ 
stroyed Dec. 29 by a fire at Bristol, 
Tenn. The loss was estimated at $1,- 
500.000. 
Ten persons at least and possibly over 
that number were killed Dec. 30 when an 
acetylene gas tank blew up in the cellar 
of the Odd Fellows Building at Lebanon, 
N. J. The cause of the explosion is not 
known. Buildings for many miles around 
were rocked by the explosion, which left 
scarcely one unbroken glass pane in Le¬ 
banon. Windows in farmhouses six miles 
^-„..y were broken. 
WHEAT TRICES. — Legislation to 
make effective the wheat-price guarantee 
for the 1919 crop and at the same time 
to safeguard the Government against 
losses was recommended to Congress Dec. 
26 by the Department of Agriculture and 
the Food Administration. A memoran¬ 
dum sent to Representative Lever, of 
South Carolina, chairman of the House 
Agricultural Committee, made the follow¬ 
ing recommendations: 
(1.) Extension by Congress beyond 
June 1, 1920, of the date for the Govern¬ 
ment purchases of the 1919 crop. 
(2.) Continuance of the Food Admin¬ 
istration’s grain corporation, for creation 
of a new agency to buy. store, and sell 
1919 wheat that may he offered to the 
Government; and 
(3.) Possible legislative provisions to 
protect the Government against wheat or 
flour brought in from other countries dur¬ 
ing the period of effectiveness of the guar¬ 
anteed price, and also' to protect buyers 
of such wheat as long as the wheat is in 
this country and not consumed. 
The memorandum was compiled with 
the approval of President Wilson, and 
Secretary Houston, in submitting it. said: 
“The Government has made a guarantee, 
and it goes without saying that it must 
he made effective.” Regarding extension 
of the date of Government purchase, the 
memorandum said : 
“It will he impossible to carry out the 
guarantee, as it is intended by June 1, 
1920, and if producers cannot sell their 
wheat to the United States before that 
date and are loft with wheat on hand, it 
will be felt that the obligation of the 
United States has not been carried out 
in good faith.” 
“The Government Purchasing Agency,” 
the memorandum set forth, “must have 
ample funds to at all times purchase 
throughout the United States at the guar¬ 
anteed price such wheat of the 1919 crop 
as may be offered to it, and also provide 
storage facilities to take care of the same 
by lease or purchase of facilities now in 
existence or by building additional facili¬ 
ties, or both.” 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Mr. Hoov¬ 
er’s report of condition in Belgium states 
that horses have practically disappeared 
from that country during the German oc¬ 
cupation. 
The New York State Department of 
Agriculture has issued an order prohibit¬ 
ing the shipment of peach and sweet cher¬ 
ry trees from Dutchess, Westchester, Nas¬ 
sau and Richmond counties to points out¬ 
side because “a dangerously injurious in¬ 
sect known as the oriental peach moth 
has been located and presumably distrib¬ 
uted” in those counties. 
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS. — A 
new synthetic process of making glycerine 
by fermentation of sugar in quantity at 
low cost has been developed, AVliieli, Gov¬ 
ernment officials say, will revolutionize 
production. Information reached the Gov¬ 
ernment in the Spring of last year that 
Germany, by producing glyceriue through 
a fermentation process, was able to turn 
out explosives requiring great quantities 
of glycerine in spite of the scarcity of fats. 
The process was tried out on a large scale 
in a chemical plant at Aurora. Ill., and 
found to be commercially profitable. Then 
the secret was conveyed to Allied Gov- 
January 11, 2910 
ernments and to manufacturing chemists 
who proposed to undertake commercial 
exploitation of the process. 
The Capital Issues Committee of the 
Treasury, the Government’s war agency 
for the suppression of unessential secur¬ 
ity issues, announced Dec. 25 that it 
would suspend activities on Dec. 31 and 
remain inactive until dissolved unless 
called back into service by developments. 
Accompanying the announcement were 
warnings to the public both from the 
committee and Secretary Glass of the nec¬ 
essity for continued strict economy and 
guarding against worthless securities. The 
committee stated its intention of making 
a supplementary report to Congress rec¬ 
ommending a law to prevent impositions 
upon the investing public, and Secretary 
Glass said lie would ask the present Con¬ 
gress to enact such legislation immedi¬ 
ately. To illustrate the extent of the 
menace, (he committee said schools were 
being established to drill salesmen in the 
art of fraudulent promotion. 
On the basis of Mr. Hoover’s report 
the Food Administration has announced 
that hereafter 180,000 tons of supplies, 
including clothing, would be shipped to 
Belgium each month. As this program 
will require 160.000 deadweight tons of 
shipping in addition to the 340.000 tons 
now on charter to the relief commission, 
application for additional tonnage has 
been made to the Shipping Board. 
Compulsory adoption of the metric sys¬ 
tem by the United States is being urged as 
an Administration measure under the 
leadership of the Treasury Department, 
and Senator Shaffroth of Colorado has 
already introduced a bill to this effect. 
The National Association of Manufac¬ 
turers of the United States of America is 
decidedly opposed to it, as is also the 
American Institute of Weights and Meas¬ 
ures, this latter society having investi¬ 
gated the subject most thoroughly. In 
Great Britain the system has been under 
advisement for years, many feeling as¬ 
sured that to adopt a metric system would 
promote trade relations with the coun¬ 
tries using same, it being in use in the 
majority of the countries of Europe and 
South America. Every proposition to 
adopt it has been overwhelmingly defeat¬ 
ed. 
Acid factories throughout Delaware 
County, N. Y., which have been running 
overtime and paying high wages since 
America entered the war, will close as the 
result of a Government order, owing to 
the great supply of acetate on hand. 
There has been a considerable reduction 
in the wages of woodchoppers and a fur¬ 
ther decrease is to be made at once. 
Prior to the war the acid factories in that 
section were doing little business, and 
several which had been abandoned were 
reopened when the war began. 
Concerted price fixing by any industry 
after the Government ceases to exercise 
price control Jan. 1 will be regarded by 
the Department of Justice as in restraint 
of free competition, it was stated Dec. 30. 
The explanation was made officially in 
answer to queries as to what happens to 
war time price fixing when the War In¬ 
dustries Board ceases to function. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York State Federation of Agricul¬ 
ture, annual meeting, Rochester, N. Y., 
week of .Tan 13. 1919. 
New Jersey State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion. annual meeting, Trenton, N. J., Jan. 
14-17, 1919. 
Trenton, N. J.—Poultry Show, Jan. 13- 
17. 1919. 
Boston, Mass.—Poultry Show, Jan 14- 
18, 1919. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association, joint meeting, Rochester, N. 
Y„ Jan. 15-17, 1919. 
Third Annual New Jersey Agricultural 
Convention, Trenton, Jan. 13-17, 1919. 
New Jersey State Poultry Association, 
annual meeting and exhibition, the Arm¬ 
ory. Trenton, N. J.. Jan. 13-17, 1919. 
Jan. 18-26.—National Western Stock 
Show, Denver. Colo. 
Farmers’ Week, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 
20-24, 1919. 
Madison Square Garden, New York— 
Poultry Show, Jan. 24-28. 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Association, 
Connecticut Sheep Breeders’ Association, 
Connecticut Poultrymen's Association, 
Hartford, Conn., Jan. 21-22, 1919. 
New York State Breeders’ Association, 
Buffalo, N. Y„ Jan. 29-31, 1919. II. B. 
Harpending, president, Dundee, N. Y. 
Connecticut Pomological Society, Con¬ 
necticut Vegetable Growers’ Association, 
Hartford, Conn., Jan. 23-24, 1919. 
American Carnation Society, Cleveland, 
O., Jan. 29-30, 1919. 
Massachusetts Dairymen's Association, 
annual meeting. Horticultural Hall, Bos¬ 
ton, week of Feb. 10, 1919. 
Feb. 8-15. — California International 
Live Stock Show, San Francisco, Cal. 
Omaha Inter-State Land Show. Munici¬ 
pal Auditorium, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 12-22, 
1919. 
Meeting of the Massachusetts State 
Vegetable Growers’ Association, to he held 
in Horticultural Hall, Boston, Feb. 12, 
1919. 
Farmers’ Week, New York Agricultural 
College, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 10-15, 1919. 
Eminent Scientist: “I didn’t marry 
beauty, my boy; I didn’t marry wealth or 
position; I married for sympathy.” 
Friend : “Well, you have mine !”—Credit 
Lost. 
